Topic: Are Your Kids Aware Of Bitcoin? Teach Them. - page 6. (Read 5645 times)

You are right, bitcoin knowledge is the part way to all forms of freedom and letting the knowledge to flow to others brings more freedom  kids have the right to know about the decentralized currency bitcoin and more also teach them about security because that is the first measure.

Bitcoin should be thought to our kids at the early stage when they began to know what is the right thing from wrong thing, teaching them about blockchain technology and decentralized currency cryptocurrency.

Letting them know about wallet security, teaching them how to avoid scams and other illegal means of getting money.

I do have a successor and he is still 12 years old, I now knows how to make transactions from one wallet to another, I use Dogecoin and Shiba to train him first because they are cheaper, I don't want to lose some BTC just because I am trying to train a kid, the only problem I am having is my wife, she doesn't feel interested at all, she feels like crypto and bitcoin is too hard for her, I do not force anyone and I plan on keeping it that way but it feels good that my son have interest in crypto, after I am sure and confused that he can handle things on his own I will buy 0.2BTC for him as a starter.

True, it doesn't mean that we have to force our children to understand Bitcoin or other crypto, of course, forcing is not a good thing.
I think that "uselessness" depends on each other's point of view in assessing it, which is certain that maybe one day after adulthood your child will need the investment sector to increase his income and maintain his wealth, even though later his child will become a famous person or whatever his status as an adult is for sure. looking for ways to increase his income outside of his profession. So maybe here your role provides an option for you child in the future for hedging or income diversification.
But to be honest, we also cannot force what is our advice to people who already have children here.

It doesn't mean you forced it on your kids, because if they are constantly browsing the internet, they will come across bitcoin and become intrigued by its value, which means that curiosity in your child will start to drive them to learn bitcoin, and here you are teaching them. But again, there are other kids whose mindset is not about finances; they want to become famous or do another useless thing. If they do not want to learn this, we should not force them because it is still useless; let them find it.

For one of the best gift you can give to younger generation is to teach them Blockchain technology, it will help them to be financially free in future, if I have the power in my country I would have added Blockchain to secondary school curriculum for further awareness.

Parents are some times responsible for the lives their kids are living today, they force things that aren't necessary on them, in the end they change their ways, I will never force crypto on my kids, it's the same thing as hosting seminars about bitcoin to bunch of people that aren't really into the tech, there is a big difference between not having interest and having interest.

Some kids are born into this world for some reasons, you need to watch them closely and notice what they are good at, every kids have their talent but many parents killed those talents because they want them to be something else.

Everything have got its time. Just because we were aware of bitcoin and hope for the best in the future we cannot make our kids succeed out of it. To me, it is the kids area of interest that needs to be found and provided with proper education that can make him/her master it. Very few parents does it, whereas the majority try to give what they missed out of financial situation or family situation.

Giving the kids with education about crypto is good, but we should not give them wrong guidence that bitcoin is the way through which wealth is made. Same as the parents if the kid during his young days weren't able to make money out of crypto, this would disappoint them. This will give him/her the understanding about money making and forget the best part of the cryptocurrency.

I think because bitcoin is the future of money, we should treat it like this all the time. So everyone should educate people around them in one way or another. So yeah, I think we should speak with our children about bitcoin.

The OPs children will be amongst a very small percentage of heirs that will be highly educated on the subject. As well as mine. We are privileged to partake in a once in a life time opportunity here with the wealth of knowledge. Anyone active on this website is completely WOKE to the fact that the FED is a complete and total ponzi scheme. Our wealth will be secured & our children will be educated in the subject to become complete and utter prodigies, Lord willing. Surely by then we can clinch a BTC Life Insurance plan so to speak, where the process to move the coin to your heirs has been perfected by the time our kids are in their 20s. Many have claimed that Chat GPT will cause the rise in AI that will break BTC to its core, but the computational power is so behind that I just don't believe that BTC could possibly be at risk in our life time, OR? Can anyone much smarter than me speak on this subject of threats towards BTC's future in the hands of AI? 

Child first interaction is family and their parent, some thing good show by their parent will give good habit for every kids and I think is most important how to guide with good education for our kids not only with moral but also with economic financial side. Bitcoin have been popular and helped many investor earn much profit trough their investment, I won't missing for educating my kids at the future how to know and get advantage with bitcoin.

I don't think my kid aware or not about Bitcoin keep guide and teach them how to understand it, not matter how longer need time to make my kids understood anything about bitcoin until he know how potential bitcoin for the future.

One thing we are usually taught in socialization is that the parents in a family are the first teachers for their children. That is, the primary education a child receives begins with his family. Basically he can get many small things from family initially.
Now coming to the main question, children in a family usually try to follow and learn what other members especially the elders do. Almost every four of my family knows a lot about cryptocurrency. I have four kids in my family, even though they are very interested in cryptocurrency, we adults are not informing them about it.
Because now is the time to get them institutionalized education, moreover cryptocurrency is officially banned in our country. We have not yet taken any decision as a family to raise awareness among children about this issue. But if there is any validation by the government and central bank in the near future, we as a family will try to educate the little ones about Bitcoin.

I finally got through the thread..  Whew!  A lot of great ideas regarding age appropriate teaching and even how much exposure kids will get through the schools and other ways that kids are going to be exposed to bitcoin in the coming years.

I kind of appreciate bakasabo’s post as a framework for me to think the various issues presented by this kids and bitcoin topic.


For sure, it seems that parents should be attempting to teach kids from their own level of competence, and surely if they don’t really know very well about the subject matter, then they will either teach bad ideas or leave the matter for the kid to learn in other ways whether from peers, in school or perhaps online and/or self-directed learning.

Surely, kids have differing interests and capabilities, and some of that can be honed and guided by parents, including if the kids might have a framework in which they might understand materials better  - so for example, some kids might learn about  money earlier than others, or be given some latitude in terms of maintaining a budget (or an allowance) at a certain age.

I would think that any parent would want to attempt to teach values in terms of how some forms of money are better than others (or potentially hold their value better than other, and that there are not any guarantees regarding these kinds of relative value assessment matters and how they are nearly inevitable to change with the passage of time), or that certain ways of investing time, money and energies are better than others..and there are ways to invest too that do not necessarily involve balls to the wall plays that rise to the level of gambling and that likely incremental investing and risk management are important skills to attempt to hone.. as well as critical thinking skills that have been mentioned too, and in some regard, if a kid is coming to bad conclusions or showing very bad social and interacting skills, then the parent should want to guide them into better behaviors whether it is through positive reinforcement or punishment, and surely some parents might not even be very strict in some regards or know what to do or how to do it or how to figure out those kinds of skills or to go to someone who has those kinds of skills, which does not end up guiding the kid.. which might have negative ramifications later.. even if the parent might believe that they are helping the kid to be his/her own self or even if the parent has good intentions.. .. and all along kids tend to need some kinds of guidance and interaction (even if some kids might have abilities to learn and guide themselves intelligently on their own better than other kids) and whether the guidance comes from the parent or the kid will get the guidance in other places.. which might not necessarily be a good place to be, even if some parents might feel that they don’t have time to either learn about some of the things that the kid is learning or to spend time to attempt to impart values that the parent believes to be important.

Another angle could be that if the parent really does not understand or appreciate the difference between bitcoins and shitcoins, then the parent is likely to influence the kid in that direction, and the kid could end up becoming a lack of focused shitcoiner who might be out to scam in any way that s/he can figure out, and surely some parents might consider those to be those to be fair skills to learn because the world is a dog eat dog world in which everyone needs to try his/her best to get what is possible out of it, and sometimes a parent might not even realize the kinds of values that they might be teaching their kids, like others mentioned that kids will tend to either emulate or have some kinds of modeling behaviors based on people in their environment, including their parents and sometimes kids will purposefully want to do the opposite of their parents, whether for good reasons or otherwise…

There sometimes can be some issues in which kids might be rebelling a lot more than other kids or other kids are more willing to take guidance, and some of the ways that the personalities turn out are somewhat related to some of the guidance that the parents made or attempted to make along the way, whether they wittingly done it or not.


Well put.


Another example might involve at what age might any of us believe that it might be good for a kid to have his/her own phone, and how much should we attempt to guide them in their use of the internet and the ways that they could potentially engage on the internet and social media.  Some parents get the kid a phone and they do not guide them or they allow the kid to set up a computer in their bedroom without parentally supervising or making it appear that they are monitoring the kids activity.. which seems like a recipe for disaster. 

There are ways to attempt to either supervise kids or to cause kids to have to report back to parents, and sure it is understandable that parents are busy, and so sometimes there might need to be some time put into setting up certain systems in which the kid has guidance rather than free-reign, and of course, they can earn more and more freedom in terms of if they are able to guide themselves without getting into too much crazy shit and drama.. even though surely some parents don't necessarily realize that some of the overly allowance of free reign too early might have contributed to their kids getting so much involved in crazy ass shit.. and then maybe even thinking that they fixed the issue, but once it starts it might be harder to get back to guiding them... and sure, results are going to vary, too.

It is all good for kids to get all this education expecially bitcoin,  but what is important about giving kid financial education and bitcoin education is that it should be done at the right age when the kids are able to assimilate , understand what is been taught to them. Teaching them stuff like this might make them not to have interest about it. Their are things that's seems to be easy for children to learn and their are things that seems hard and stress to them. Learning in children is a process, Their is a stage that is suitable for them to learn things.

You can only teach your kids about bitcoin or crypto when you practically and theoretically understand the whole concept, and it is very important that your kids understand it well especially the basics and teach it in a fun way.
and your child also needs to know most of the popular terms or words in crypto especially bitcoin, and in addition it is very important to help your child understand crypto and how blockchain plays a big role in cryptocurrency.
bitcoin is the future, which I think your child should know and understand as early as possible so that your child becomes a successful person in the future because of bitcoin. And I am also planning this for my son who is currently one year old and he is always on my lap when I open or operate anything related to bitcoin using his mobile or desktop and I am happy that my son can say bitcoin even if it's not perfect because I always give know the bitcoin symbol.

Having in mind how children learn very fast and that all information are available to them on internet and social media, it might happen that they will be more informed than you are.
I don't think that the information about Bitcoin and crypto are crucial to them, they will come to that by themselves, believe me. I think that it's more important to teach them how to estimate information they get, how to spot fake news and misinformation and use their critical opinion. Everything else, including Bitcoin, would be much easier for them.

I feel they did not go through the thread very well before making replies, back to the thread Given how intelligent children are nowadays, I don't think it's a bad idea to teach them about bitcoin. Kids who have cell phones, I'm sure they've come across them and wondered what it is and what it's been used for, so teaching them about them isn't a bad idea at all.

Of course, when teaching the point is to invest and understand the technology, so that children get income it will have a bad impact on their mindset, in which their way of thinking will be profit-oriented, and when they are able to make money from bitcoin I doubt what it will be like in the future.
It's true what you say, they will not want to continue their studies because they will focus on getting more money from investing. And that in my opinion is not a good thing, teaching children about bitcoin must be balanced with fundamental knowledge in life such as social and civilized understanding and others.

First of all, i think I need to be getting married but I am currently im not married, and from that factual from that point obviously, i don't have any kids. But I do promise to myself that in the future i am going to teach them what is bitcoin and how to bitcoin and all that newbie stuff, obviously.

When we teach our kids bitcoin, we're teaching them how to invest, and how to make money, not about technology, so teaching them to make money too early when they're 7 isn't necessarily a good thing. If children are too passionate about bitcoin, only worrying about making money to invest but neglecting their studies, it is the fault of parents like us.

In my own personal experience, children in their 4-5 years old are old enough to understand that saving is and how is supposed to work (accumulating to spend in the future), so that is a good age to teach about it.

Later, Bitcoin could be introduced when the child starts to interact with technology in a meaningful way, perhaps around 12 years old. At that age, children know how to handle a computer and do basic things like sending an e-mail and installing programs.